Communicating with GCE (PHP)

[Bryan Goldberg]

I have a fresh install of an Ubuntu Compute Engine. I am using the php runtime of google app engine and I was wondering if there was a way to communicate with my GCE without installing apache on my GCE.

If anyone could walk me through or recommend some notes I'd really appreciate it.

[Jim]

you could have a process on your GCE instance that periodically polls for messages in a queue, or when your GCE instance starts you could open a channel and listen for events

[Jim]

sorry, the channels api isn't going to work for you on a GCE instance, although you could just use a socket

queues will work for you (pull from your GCE instance)

[Vinny P]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Bryan Goldberg <bgo...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have a fresh install of an Ubuntu Compute Engine. I am using the php runtime of google app engine and I was wondering if there was a way to communicate with my GCE without installing apache on my GCE.

As Jim said, a socket connection is probably the best way to handle communications to your GCE instance. 

However - depending on your communications needs - you could go a lot of different ways. For instance, you could have your GCE machine periodically poll a page on your App Engine site. Another alternative is to communicate over XMPP: the PHP GAE runtime doesn't have access to the XMPP service, but you could write a Java/Python module and use the App Engine XMPP capability.

 

 

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-Vinny P

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Chicago, IL

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